Quotes on Worry

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Worry implies that we don't quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives.

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!